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Very poorly worded and structured, strays from its field

This is potentially the most jargon filled science article on wiki that I've ever read. It describes the mechanisms of the synapse, particularly the glutamate synapse, almost obsessively, and each time it goes through it it becomes less and less clear. I know this because I am currently doing a neuroscience course, and need to know quite a bit about them. The reader of this article should be initially directed to the synapse article so that they have the necessary knowledge to understand this article, and then this article should stick to a very concise explanation of the current knowledge of how the long term potentiation mechanism is restricted. That's all this article should attempt -- none of this explanation of what a vesicle is, or trying to (unsuccessfully) explain what is meant by pre and post synaptic elements.

Yes I could edit this myself, no I do not have the time unfortunately. This requires a very significant re-write. Mlaclom (talk) 09:50, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]